Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.